2. Bowie Subway Takeovers

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In true New York City fashion, David Bowie took over the Broadway-Lafayette and Bleecker Street subway stops in 2018, which are few blocks from where he lived. A collaboration between Spotify and The Brooklyn Museum, the stations have been covered in Bowie-themed subway ads, images of fan-made works and wall-sized depictions of pieces that were on display at the museum’s David Bowie Is exhibition.

The underground experience included limited edition MetroCards that displayed one of five Bowie personas including Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and Thin White Duke. In 2019, on the anniversary of Bowie’s death, a guerrilla takeover of the Broadway-Lafayette subway station entrance marked four years after his death.